From China Daily
Beijing and Shanghai are among the 10 most innovative cities in the world, based on published articles in leading academic journals, a survey released on Friday said.
The reported by the Shanghai Institute for Science of Science and Springer Nature publishing company surveyed 82 influential academic journals, including Nature, Science, and Cell, from 2012 to 2017, and calculated the contribution of different cities to global innovation according to the location of the authors' research institutes.
It found that researchers in the 20 most innovative cities contributed more than one-fourth of all the papers, and called those cities "The sources of global innovation in science and technology".
New York topped the survey, followed by Boston and Beijing. Shanghai ranked seventh. Other cities in the top 10 included San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles, Seoul and London.
The most influential research institute was Harvard University, While Peking University and Tsinghua University in Beijing ranked seventh and 10th place respectively.
Shanghai's Fudan University and Shanghai Jiaotong University were at 21st and 29th.